cloudwatch

Amazon CloudWatch Output for Telegraf

This plugin will send metrics to Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon Authentication

This plugin uses a credential chain for Authentication with the CloudWatch API endpoint. In the following order the plugin will attempt to authenticate.

1. Assumed credentials via STS if role_arn attribute is specified (source credentials are evaluated from subsequent rules)
2. Explicit credentials from access_key, secret_key, and token attributes
3. Shared profile from profile attribute
4. Environment Variables
5. Shared Credentials
6. EC2 Instance Profile

Config

For this output plugin to function correctly the following variables must be configured.

• region
• namespace

region

The region is the Amazon region that you wish to connect to. Examples include but are not limited to:

• us-west-1
• us-west-2
• us-east-1
• ap-southeast-1
• ap-southeast-2

namespace

The namespace used for AWS CloudWatch metrics.